Ten Thousand Hours Photography
10,000 Hours Deliberate Practice Learning the Art of Photography
I am generally a man with a short attention span, half an hour at a gallery or exhibition is generally enough, an hour or more is exceptional. The Pompidou Centre maintained my rapt attention for over 5 hours with only the briefest stops for rehydration
(the above image is not my photo)
[Read more…]On the 15th April of this year Sotheby’s New York sold Leonora Carrington’s 1945 “Les Distractions de Dagobert” for $28.5m setting a new record for a female British artist. However, if we remove the words “female” and “British”, she doesn’t make Wikipedia’s list of the top 89 most expensive paintings. In fact, no women artists do
Historical discrimination against women artists is an uncomfortable truth. We acknowledge past injustices, think things are better now, yet know there is more to do. However, the above news struck me as positive, and prompted me to investigate further
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This is both a post in its own right (an update to the list I wrote at hour zero of this project) and an accompaniment to the “Female British Artist” post being written at the same time
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February to 1st September 2024 – Floor 2, Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London, SE1 9TG
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One of the many apocryphal tales of Picasso holds that he conceived cubism following an opium induced dream in which the role of the painter was relentlessly belittled by the unstoppable rise of photography.
Certainly, for portraiture and similar images, photography is a cheaper and more convenient means of creating a record. However, the Tate Modern’s “Capturing the Moment” exhibition looks at photography as an art form that evolved symbiotically with the most exciting movements of 20th and 21st century art.
Click the image above to visit the Tate’s website or click below to see more
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